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A new novel from Tyler is always a treat and this is her best in
years' Mail on Sunday

About the Author

Anne Tyler was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1941 and grew up
in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her bestselling novels include
Breathing Lessons,The Accidental Tourist, Dinner
at the Homesick Restaurant, Ladder of Years, Back
When We Were Grownups, A Patchwork Planet, The Amateur Marriage,
Digging to America, A Spool of Blue Thread and Vinegar Girl. In
1989 she won the Pulitzer Prize for Breathing Lessons; in
1994 she was nominated by Roddy Doyle and Nick Hornby as 'the
greatest novelist writing in English'; in 2012 she received the
Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence; and in 2015 A Spool
of Blue Thread was a Sunday Times bestseller and was
shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction and the Man
Booker Prize.

Reviews

"Tyler's twentieth novel finds fresh fictional riches in
imaginative territory she has been exploring for half a century...
Atmospherically rendered, the passage of time has both entertaining
and heart-rending results. She has never written with more finesse,
vitality and acuteness" * Sunday Times, book of the year *
"I love Tyler's writing... She writes so beautifully and with such
insight. Read her books and she can actually change your view,
change how you see the world" -- Judy Finnigan * Mail on Sunday
*
"Exquisite" * The Times *
"Tyler's sentences are wholly hers, instantly recognisable and
impossible to duplicate" -- Hanya Yanigihara * Observer, Books That
Made Our Year 2015 *
"The extraordinary thing about her writing is the extent to which
she makes one believe every word, deed and breath" -- Kate Kellaway
* Guardian *
"Tyler writes with an apparent effortlessness which conceals great
art. The Whitshank family is tragic, comic, absurd, absorbing --
and lives on its illusions, as every family must. You'll shiver
with recognition" -- Helen Dunmore * Stylist *
"May be her best yet, though, to be honest, this is what I always
tend to say after reading the latest Anne Tyler. I've now read it
twice, and I may well read it again" -- Craig Brown * Mail on
Sunday *
"Anne Tyler takes the ordinary, the small, and makes them sing" --
Rachel Joyce * Observer, Books That Made Our Year 2015 *
"The combination of direct appeal, subtle perception and unshowy
artistry in Tyler's fiction has been admired by authors ranging
from Joyce Carol Oates and Carol Shields to Jonathan Franzen and
Sebastian Faulks... Her extraordinary gift for producing what seems
less like fiction than actuality works wonders again...
magnificent" -- Peter Kemp * Sunday Times *
"Every sentence is perfect in this witty story of family life" *
Sun *

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